They've also covered all of the parking lots at the big VA hospital in West LA. How much electricity they generate I don't know, but at least you don't have to worry about clearing snow off, and I'll bet that they're built to handle the high winds we get down here.
You don't have to be a chef to know how to prepare a meal that's edible and nutritious any more than you have to be a programmer to use a computer. Guess which one most people will find more useful in their lives.
Yes, they were also using both celestial navigation and LORAN, but they were also using dead reckoning as a backup. The error I mentioned was between the dead reckoning and the position fix.
The ship managed to navigate all the way across the Pacific Ocean, in deep water with a cumulative position error of only two miles, well over a decade before GPS was available. And, we were still in deep water, well away from any subsurface obstacles when we made landfall and were able to get an exact fix. (On a clear day at sea, the horizon is about 25 nautical miles away. I don't know how far out we were when we were able to identify and use landmarks, but I'd be surprised if we were closer than 20 miles.)
Back in '72, when I was in the Navy, one of my friends was a Quartermaster's Mate, involved in (among other things) navigation. He told me that when we went from Pearl Harbor to Subic Bay, in the Phillipenes, that they used 2000 yards for a Nautical Mile, rather than the more accurate 2025, and treated all turns as "point turns" instead of working out the distance needed to make the turn. When we made our landfall and were able to pinpoint our location, we were within two nautical miles of our location by dead reckoning. This will give you an idea of how little an issue this probably was for ships or aircraft, although it might have been a problem for guided munitions with no human oversight.
That was my thought. Set up a domain, such as snowdengroupies.ru, post all of the overly-graphic pictures and make sure it's easy to find. Don't add contact info, but don't remove any that's already part of the image. What the women have to do to get them removed, assuming that he's willing to, is left as an exercise for the reader.
When I developed cataracts, I was seriously considering stopping driving at night. Then, they ripened enough to be removed. Not only did my night vision come back, I went from being intensely nearsighted to being slightly farsighted and night driving isn't an issue any longer. From what you write, it's a shame that this wasn't an option for your grandfather.
There were thousands of GIs who survived D Day only because they were able to salvage a rifle, ammo and other equipment from a comrade who failed to make it ashore alive because they'd had to abandon their own equipment to keep from drowning when they were forced to leave the landing craft too far from shore. I'm sure that the same thing holds true (if in smaller numbers) for every opposed landing during that war. And, as long as there's a chance that combat troops are going to need to replace their weapons that way during a fire fight, there's no chance that any military's going to go for something like this.
I've actually done some obfuscation of my own communications. Years ago, I worked for a tech company where most of my co-workers were about half my age at best, and their word usage, grammar and syntax often made them look like high school dropouts, especially when compared to my writing. (No, I'm not bragging; it's just that unlike them, I cared about such things and tried harder than they did to get it right.)
One of the ways we had for giving feedback was an internal website where we could "ask the suits." Officially, the questions were anonymous, but my writing style was distinctive enough to be a giveaway if the responder was familiar with me. To avoid that, I did my best to mimic the style, word-choice and syntax of the other techs, including one or two judicious spelling errors so that my questions looked about the same as anybody else's. I've no idea, of course, if this would fool a determined attempt to identify me, but I'm fairly sure that my identity wasn't obvious, and that's all that I needed.
German also puts the verb(s) at the end of the sentence. Translate your work into proper German, have a computer make a literal translation back to English and you'll get much the same thing as Yoda-speak.
Somehow, I always knew that the first Moon Landings would be during my lifetime, although I didn't expect them to be televised in real time. Now, I can only hope that I haven't seen the last ones already.
No insurance. We got all of the needed medicines and test equipment and were paid for our time, but that's it. Of course, this wasn't a preliminary trial like the one in the article and that may well make a difference.
And medical testing in particular preys on those who are desperate, or financially in need already.
I was recently part of a clinical trial for a new type of mealtime insulin. This included, among other things, checking my blood sugar four times a day instead of the twice that my regular doctor needed, taking both the mealtime insulin and my regular daily Lantus, and regular visits to the study's doctor for blood tests. And, because of the way the new insulin acts, I had a large number of hypoglycemic episodes, although none bad enough to require medical intervention. For this, I got roughly $1000 in total. Yes, the extra money was nice, but nowhere near enough to compensate for the extra hassle and it certainly wouldn't have paid the bills if I'd ended up in the ER because of their meds. You'd really have to be very, very desperate to do it just for the money; most of us who spend time as human lab rats do it because it's the right thing to do and we're willing to accept the risks. Most of the time, all goes well. Alas, this was one of the rare times it didn't.
anti-war protester Jane Fonda was called this during Vietnam, or snidely referred to as "Hanoi Jane"
For most of us who served back then, she still is and always will be Hanoi Jane. If the US had actually declared war on North Viet Nam, she would have been guilty of treason for giving Aid and Comfort to the enemies of the United States, and while we can't send her to prison as she deserves, we can, and mostly do boycott her movies.
In that case, I can only advise you to update your resume and start quietly looking for a new job. Any company that has so little regard for their employee's health and morale isn't worth working for, but it's always best to make sure they don't know you're even looking until you turn in your notice.
My employer is fully supportive of me taking that time back but they've been making it more and more difficult to find replacements for myself when I do.
That just means that both of you are doing it the wrong way. It shouldn't be your responsibility to find somebody to cover for you; that's your boss's job.
So stop bragging to all your buddies since 1973 that you have a secret clearance...
I've never seen it something to brag about. I certainly didn't talk about it back then, and once I got out, I had even less reason to mention it. In fact, I only mentioned it here to show that I'd had personal experience with how classified material is handled.
I can easily remember when any language that couldn't compile its own compiler was considered a toy language. Clearly, times have changed, possibly for the better, possibly not.
If you had a Secret clearance back then, it was changed to "inactive" when you left the service.
Good. I may have known that back then, but I recycled those neurons decades ago. And, some of that Secret material was automatically declassified after (I think.) seven years, meaning long enough for everybody who knew it to have forgotten the details.
More to the point, a lot of the information in the Clinton emails was initially classified and marked as such - but someone took the markings off when they sent it.
I wouldn't be surprised, and I do hope that they're going after the irresponsible clowns who did that. If nothing else, any clearances they still hold should be pulled and they should be declared ineligible to hold any position in the US government ever again. Yes, that's going to be hard to explain in a job interview, but it sucks to be stupid, doesn't it?
You do not understand how classified etc works. It's not about the markings it's about the content.
I beg to differ. Back when I was in the USN, I had a Secret clearance, and if it's been pulled, I've never been notified. (It certainly should have been by now, as I got out in early '73.) I never had access to the type of classified information we're talking about here, but I do know that for most people, if a document isn't marked as Classified, the default assumption is that it isn't.
Classifying something retroactively seems a bit odd though.
Yes indeed. My best guess is that whoever went through that email looking for classified stuff ran across things that should have been classified all along and did the retroactive classification bit to keep them from getting out.
Well, going by what I learned back when I was in the Navy, the original classification (if any) is assigned by the person creating the document. Yes, if memory serves, she could have classified it herself, but it's rather rare for somebody at her level to do so; either you trust your subordinates' judgment or you replace them because you've got too much to do every day to have time for that kind of micromanagement.
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They've also covered all of the parking lots at the big VA hospital in West LA. How much electricity they generate I don't know, but at least you don't have to worry about clearing snow off, and I'll bet that they're built to handle the high winds we get down here.
You speak for everyone?
No. The OP was using the pregnant "we."
Not everyone is a chef.
You don't have to be a chef to know how to prepare a meal that's edible and nutritious any more than you have to be a programmer to use a computer. Guess which one most people will find more useful in their lives.
Yes, they were also using both celestial navigation and LORAN, but they were also using dead reckoning as a backup. The error I mentioned was between the dead reckoning and the position fix.
The ship managed to navigate all the way across the Pacific Ocean, in deep water with a cumulative position error of only two miles, well over a decade before GPS was available. And, we were still in deep water, well away from any subsurface obstacles when we made landfall and were able to get an exact fix. (On a clear day at sea, the horizon is about 25 nautical miles away. I don't know how far out we were when we were able to identify and use landmarks, but I'd be surprised if we were closer than 20 miles.)
Back in '72, when I was in the Navy, one of my friends was a Quartermaster's Mate, involved in (among other things) navigation. He told me that when we went from Pearl Harbor to Subic Bay, in the Phillipenes, that they used 2000 yards for a Nautical Mile, rather than the more accurate 2025, and treated all turns as "point turns" instead of working out the distance needed to make the turn. When we made our landfall and were able to pinpoint our location, we were within two nautical miles of our location by dead reckoning. This will give you an idea of how little an issue this probably was for ships or aircraft, although it might have been a problem for guided munitions with no human oversight.
That was my thought. Set up a domain, such as snowdengroupies.ru, post all of the overly-graphic pictures and make sure it's easy to find. Don't add contact info, but don't remove any that's already part of the image. What the women have to do to get them removed, assuming that he's willing to, is left as an exercise for the reader.
When I developed cataracts, I was seriously considering stopping driving at night. Then, they ripened enough to be removed. Not only did my night vision come back, I went from being intensely nearsighted to being slightly farsighted and night driving isn't an issue any longer. From what you write, it's a shame that this wasn't an option for your grandfather.
There were thousands of GIs who survived D Day only because they were able to salvage a rifle, ammo and other equipment from a comrade who failed to make it ashore alive because they'd had to abandon their own equipment to keep from drowning when they were forced to leave the landing craft too far from shore. I'm sure that the same thing holds true (if in smaller numbers) for every opposed landing during that war. And, as long as there's a chance that combat troops are going to need to replace their weapons that way during a fire fight, there's no chance that any military's going to go for something like this.
I've actually done some obfuscation of my own communications. Years ago, I worked for a tech company where most of my co-workers were about half my age at best, and their word usage, grammar and syntax often made them look like high school dropouts, especially when compared to my writing. (No, I'm not bragging; it's just that unlike them, I cared about such things and tried harder than they did to get it right.)
One of the ways we had for giving feedback was an internal website where we could "ask the suits." Officially, the questions were anonymous, but my writing style was distinctive enough to be a giveaway if the responder was familiar with me. To avoid that, I did my best to mimic the style, word-choice and syntax of the other techs, including one or two judicious spelling errors so that my questions looked about the same as anybody else's. I've no idea, of course, if this would fool a determined attempt to identify me, but I'm fairly sure that my identity wasn't obvious, and that's all that I needed.
German also puts the verb(s) at the end of the sentence. Translate your work into proper German, have a computer make a literal translation back to English and you'll get much the same thing as Yoda-speak.
Somehow, I always knew that the first Moon Landings would be during my lifetime, although I didn't expect them to be televised in real time. Now, I can only hope that I haven't seen the last ones already.
We no longer tolerate fundamentalist christians...
I don't know where you live, or what you think the laws are there, but here in the USA we still have something called "Freedom of Religion."
No insurance. We got all of the needed medicines and test equipment and were paid for our time, but that's it. Of course, this wasn't a preliminary trial like the one in the article and that may well make a difference.
And medical testing in particular preys on those who are desperate, or financially in need already.
I was recently part of a clinical trial for a new type of mealtime insulin. This included, among other things, checking my blood sugar four times a day instead of the twice that my regular doctor needed, taking both the mealtime insulin and my regular daily Lantus, and regular visits to the study's doctor for blood tests. And, because of the way the new insulin acts, I had a large number of hypoglycemic episodes, although none bad enough to require medical intervention. For this, I got roughly $1000 in total. Yes, the extra money was nice, but nowhere near enough to compensate for the extra hassle and it certainly wouldn't have paid the bills if I'd ended up in the ER because of their meds. You'd really have to be very, very desperate to do it just for the money; most of us who spend time as human lab rats do it because it's the right thing to do and we're willing to accept the risks. Most of the time, all goes well. Alas, this was one of the rare times it didn't.
anti-war protester Jane Fonda was called this during Vietnam, or snidely referred to as "Hanoi Jane"
For most of us who served back then, she still is and always will be Hanoi Jane. If the US had actually declared war on North Viet Nam, she would have been guilty of treason for giving Aid and Comfort to the enemies of the United States, and while we can't send her to prison as she deserves, we can, and mostly do boycott her movies.
I just had a reason to look at my DD-215 for something unrelated, and neither my clearance nor its status were mentioned.
In that case, I can only advise you to update your resume and start quietly looking for a new job. Any company that has so little regard for their employee's health and morale isn't worth working for, but it's always best to make sure they don't know you're even looking until you turn in your notice.
My employer is fully supportive of me taking that time back but they've been making it more and more difficult to find replacements for myself when I do.
That just means that both of you are doing it the wrong way. It shouldn't be your responsibility to find somebody to cover for you; that's your boss's job.
So stop bragging to all your buddies since 1973 that you have a secret clearance...
I've never seen it something to brag about. I certainly didn't talk about it back then, and once I got out, I had even less reason to mention it. In fact, I only mentioned it here to show that I'd had personal experience with how classified material is handled.
You write your languages in C with ASM...
I can easily remember when any language that couldn't compile its own compiler was considered a toy language. Clearly, times have changed, possibly for the better, possibly not.
If you had a Secret clearance back then, it was changed to "inactive" when you left the service.
Good. I may have known that back then, but I recycled those neurons decades ago. And, some of that Secret material was automatically declassified after (I think.) seven years, meaning long enough for everybody who knew it to have forgotten the details.
More to the point, a lot of the information in the Clinton emails was initially classified and marked as such - but someone took the markings off when they sent it.
I wouldn't be surprised, and I do hope that they're going after the irresponsible clowns who did that. If nothing else, any clearances they still hold should be pulled and they should be declared ineligible to hold any position in the US government ever again. Yes, that's going to be hard to explain in a job interview, but it sucks to be stupid, doesn't it?
You do not understand how classified etc works. It's not about the markings it's about the content.
I beg to differ. Back when I was in the USN, I had a Secret clearance, and if it's been pulled, I've never been notified. (It certainly should have been by now, as I got out in early '73.) I never had access to the type of classified information we're talking about here, but I do know that for most people, if a document isn't marked as Classified, the default assumption is that it isn't.
Classifying something retroactively seems a bit odd though.
Yes indeed. My best guess is that whoever went through that email looking for classified stuff ran across things that should have been classified all along and did the retroactive classification bit to keep them from getting out.
Who do you think classifies information?
Well, going by what I learned back when I was in the Navy, the original classification (if any) is assigned by the person creating the document. Yes, if memory serves, she could have classified it herself, but it's rather rare for somebody at her level to do so; either you trust your subordinates' judgment or you replace them because you've got too much to do every day to have time for that kind of micromanagement.